A filmmaker is making it his mission to bring awareness to those struggling with addiction in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood. He took his cameras to the middle of the open-air drug market .
“I don’t know what can top the desperate situations in Kensington, it’s harrowing,” director Charlie Minn from Double Wave Productions said.
Minn and his crew spent four days in the neighborhood and filmed his documentary called “Kensington” around the clock. He said it’s a dire and desperate situation there.
“I didn’t think it was as bad as I was until I got there and saw it for myself,” he said.
Minn tried to humanize the crisis and approached people with addiction for interviews. He said there was no script for situations he found himself in.
“I think these people had nothing to lose, and maybe they were hoping someone would see the movie and some people would help them,” Minn said.